Challenge (Communist journal)
Challenge is the title of organisational publications of two separate communist groups.
The first is a magazine produced by the Young Communist League, the youth wing of the Communist Party of Great Britain. The first issue was published in March 1935, and it has been produced intermittently ever since. In the mid-1970s while the YCL was influenced by youth trends, the publication was re-designed to give it a punk zine aesthetic. When the Communist Party was re-established in 1988 as the Communist Party of Britain, the published its magazine under the title Young Communist, however in 2000 it was renamed back to Challenge with issue №1 published in November/October that year. An online edition was launched in May 2020.
The aim of the journal is, according to the, to cover
The other "Challenge" is the bi-weekly newspaper of the Progressive Labor Party, a transnational communist party based primarily in the United States. Due to its rather large Spanish language readership, the PLP also produces parallel issues in Spanish.
Neither publication is to be confused with the historical Challenge which was, in its day, a primary publication of the Young People's Socialist League back when it was associated with the Socialist Party of America.
